Latent Cultural Bias in Soundtracks of Western News Coverage From Early COVID-19 Epicenters

Deaville, James; Lemire, Chantal

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686738

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 70 publications

(65 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Previous studies have examined the media coverage of COVID-19 in different countries. In an ongoing study of the soundtracks from Western news coverage of the pandemic at the first major sites of infection and quarantine, such as Wuhan (China), Tehran (Iran), and Milan (Italy), researchers have found that the distribution of sound, silence, and music differs regionally and nationally [ 27 ]. Meanwhile, mainstream news organizations’ social media posts of different countries maintain a strong elite orientation [ 28 ].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media Bias and Factors Affecting the Impartiality of News Agencies during COVID-19

Luo

Han

et al. 2022

Behavioral Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

When COVID-19 was raging around the world, people were more fearful and anxious. In this context, the media should uphold impartiality and shoulder the responsibility of eliminating misinformation. Therefore, our research adopted sentiment analysis technologies to analyze the impartiality of news agencies and analyzed the factors that affect the impartiality of COVID-19-related articles about various countries. The SentiWordNet3.0 and bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT) models were employed to analyze the articles and visualize the data. The following conclusions were redrawn in our research. During the pandemic, articles of some news agencies were not objective; the impartiality of news agencies was related to the reliability of news agencies instead of the bias of news agencies; there were obvious differences in the coverage and positivity of international news agencies to report the performance of COVID-19 prevention and control in different countries.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%